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The '''Democratic Unity Roundtable''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: '''Mesa de la Unidad Democrática''', shortened '''MUD''' or '''Unidad''') is a broad, big-tent alliance of oppositionists to the [[Venezuela|Venezuelan]] [[Nicolás Maduro|Maduro]] government. In contrary to portrayals in mass media, the MUD consists mostly of [[liberal]]s who would e.g. like to legalize [[abortion]] and [[same-sex civil union]]s, thus being more socially leftist than the Maduro government. However many of the parties included have contradictory views to each other they all share the same distrust of Maduro's authoritarian [[socialist]] regime. Out of the 16 parties represented in MUD, only 4 are right-of-center. This is due to the fact that in Latin America, [[Christian Democratic]] parties tend to be centre-left compared to the rest of the world where they are centre-right to right-wing. In the Venezuelan parliament, altogether only 4 of 109 MUD MPs are right-of-center. Economically more MUD parties are conservative, but the majority of them is also on the left. Most MUD parties are members of the [[Socialist International]] such as the ''Acción Democrática'', ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' or ''Voluntad Popular''.